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The Literary 100, Revised Edition
  • Authored by: Daniel S. Burt
  • From the Series: The Literature 100
  • Trim Size: 6 X 9
  • ISBN-10: 0816062676
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-6267-6
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $50.00
  • Imprint: Facts On File
  • Published: 12/01/2008
  • Dewey Number: 809
  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up
  • Pages: 560

Summary

Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures—now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel García Márquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature.

All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.

New writers include:

  • Chinua Achebe
  • W.H. Auden
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Robert Frost
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Horace
  • Ben Jonson
  • Kalidasa
  • Doris Lessing
  • Li Po
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Arthur Miller
  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  • Toni Morrison
  • George Orwell
  • Harold Pinter
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Samuel Richardson
  • Rainier Maria Rilke
  • Sappho
  • Edmund Spenser
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Kawabata Yasunari.

Specifications

Index. Bibliography.

About the Author(s)

Daniel S. Burt holds a Ph.D. from New York University and currently teaches literature in Wesleyan University's graduate liberal studies program. He is the author of The Drama 100 and The Novel 100, both for Facts On File. He is also the author of The Biography Book and What Historical Novel Do I Read Next? He was the Associate Dean of the College at Wesleyan University for nine years and previously served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies at New York University. He lives in South Chatham, Massachusetts.

Reviews and Awards

"Sure to spark lively classroom debates about why one writer outranks another."


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